Producers Compare Lost's Legacy to Sopranos

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Producers Compare Lost's Legacy to Sopranos

How will Lost end? The producers sure as heck aren't saying, but at a press conference Tuesday, show-runner Carlton Cuse warned that the series finale will leave plenty of issues unresolved.

"Not every question's going to be answered, so obviously some people are going to be upset that those particular questions don't get resolved," he said.

"We felt if we tried to just answer questions, it would be very pedantic," Cuse explained, according to transcripts of the Television Critics Association press session, held Tuesday in Pasadena, California.

"Apart from that, we also really embrace this notion that there's a fundamental sort of sense of mystery.... That is a huge part of the lives of these characters, and to sort of demystify that by trying to literally explain everything down to the last little sort of midi-chlorian of it all would be a mistake in our view."

Aside from promising "resolutions and some surprises," Cuse and crew remained deliberately vague about plot particulars. Lost producers did provide one nugget of news, though: Harold Perrineau (who plays Michael Dawson) and Cynthia Watros (Libby Smith, pictured), will return for the final season after going missing in action.

Co-creator Damon Lindelof said he hopes his show's two-hour finale will ultimately carry less import than the sci-fi series' overall story arc.

Comparing Lost to The Sopranos, he said: "We remember every shot of the diner scene, and of course, the cut to black. But then, as time goes on, you think about The Sopranos as a series as opposed to just the finale. All that we can hope for is that the legacy that really matters, the one about the series, is that people feel like the experience of watching Lost was incredibly rewarding and that they're happy that they dedicated all that time and energy to the show."

ABC kicks off Lost's final run of 16 consecutive episodes with a two-hour season premiere at 9 p.m. EST Feb. 2.